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SoC Chip Lead

Posted on 6/27/2024

Celestial AI

Celestial AI

51-200 employees

Optical interconnects for hyperscale data centers

Data & Analytics
AI & Machine Learning

Compensation Overview

$200k - $225kAnnually

+ Equity

Expert

Santa Clara, CA, USA

Requires onsite presence in Santa Clara, CA.

Category
Electronics Design Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Required Skills
CAD
Requirements
  • Must have a BS or MS degree in either EE or CS and have a minimum of 12 years of relevant experience in high performance SOC ASIC development from concept to production
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and organizational skills
  • Requires hands-on experience with all stages of VLSI development as well as a proven track record of building and leading interdisciplinary and cross-functional teams
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Highly organized to effectively managing competing priorities
  • Demonstrated experience in successfully taping out multiple silicon, experience in FinFET technologies a must
  • Must have a strong understanding of all phases of development in ASIC projects
  • Experience in interconnect design and mixed signal is highly desirable
Responsibilities
  • Scale the ASIC design team with world-class engineers
  • Provide technical leadership and management for the entire SoC development process
  • Drive architecture, design, verification, physical design, silicon bring-up, CAD methodologies
  • Be the point of technical contact for all the third-party IP and design services
  • Drive schedules, priorities, and goals to meet complex business needs and deadlines across geographically distributed teams
  • Be the technical point of contact to cross functional System in Package development and software
  • Provide technical leadership through role modeling, mentoring and teamwork

Celestial AI focuses on enhancing the performance of hyperscale data centers through its technology called Photonic Fabric™, which is an optical compute interconnect. This technology improves memory sharing by reducing the total DRAM requirements by up to 35%, leading to significant cost savings for data centers. It achieves this by utilizing optical interconnects that lower power consumption and increase bandwidth capacity, which is crucial for multi-tenant cloud environments where lower latency memory pooling can save around 23%. Additionally, Celestial AI's technology enables the disaggregation of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) by using optics instead of traditional PCIe connections, addressing future needs for higher bandwidth connections among compute units. The company aims to provide this optical connectivity to data centers, facilitating advancements in Generative AI and other complex computing tasks, positioning itself as a key player in the evolution of advanced computing.

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$337.9M

Headquarters

Sunnyvale, California

Founded

2020

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

11%

1 year growth

27%

2 year growth

122%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • The recent $175 million Series C funding round, led by prominent investors, underscores strong financial backing and growth potential.
  • Appointment of industry veteran Diane Bryant to the Board of Directors brings valuable expertise and credibility to the company.
  • Adoption of Photonic Fabric™ by leading hyperscalers indicates market validation and potential for widespread industry impact.

What critics are saying

  • The highly competitive nature of the high-performance computing market could challenge Celestial AI's ability to maintain its technological edge.
  • Dependence on the successful integration and adoption of Photonic Fabric™ technology by hyperscalers and other partners poses a risk if market acceptance is slower than anticipated.

What makes Celestial AI unique

  • Celestial AI's Photonic Fabric™ technology offers a unique optical compute interconnect that significantly reduces DRAM requirements and power consumption, setting it apart from traditional data center solutions.
  • The company's focus on disaggregating HBM over optics instead of PCIe provides a forward-looking approach to meet future bandwidth and latency needs, unlike competitors relying on conventional interconnects.
  • Strategic collaborations with hyperscalers and AI computing providers enable Celestial AI to address critical performance chokepoints, positioning it as a leader in advanced AI infrastructure.

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